18.1.07 what small dfw/mse thing have you done/will you do today?

hypno06 · 18 January 2007 at 8:08AM

Hello! I hope the storms haven't kept too many people awake!

Remembering that every little effort helps us to become debt free sooner, write down here something that you will be doing or have done today that forms part of your journey. It is good for us to remind ourselves that it is not just the big things that count.

So, for me, we are still eating up out of the freezer and the cupboards - dinner tonight is some sort of cheesy vegetable thing I think!

I also updated my snowball calculator to prove to myself that we ARE making inroads to our debts.:D

Finally, I am getting quite good at only boiling enough water in the kettle for the required cup of coffee, rather than having it almost full every time.

Have a good day and don't get blown away!

lynzpower · 18 January 2007 at 8:25AM

very windy here too hypno

OK today as follows

Last night I had a brainwave that its £75 for an hour with the removal van, and roughly the same for a whole weekend with a fairly large hired car - so Ill book the car for the weekend, so hopefully we can have 2 x hours with the van and a whole w/e with the car for the same price as x hours with van.
Once weve exchanged I need to book the car ( via quidco , natch, and will search for codes

)

Ive emailed union about my resignation, I might hopefully resign today or tomorrow

Im hoping we will exchange on the flat today. which is a blessed relief and the biggest MSE thing Ive done to date

have a good day y'all

fallenwiccan · 18 January 2007 at 9:09AM

im not a DFW (well except my student loan thats steadily racking up) but i enjoy using all the MSE ideas from these threads and i guess reading these has stopped any thoughts of speading sprees lol

but i just got £60 today for my birthday which is nice and shall go in my ISA or savings account, whichever has best interest

have a good day everyone

ricksExpensive · 18 January 2007 at 9:19AM

Very very windy here as well!

Well after having to stick £10 worth of juice in the car this morning im going to try and not spend to much in the pub tonight at the quiz! But im staying in on friday night cooking a meal for my G/F and then seeing family on saturday night so wont spend to much thank god!

crawley_girl · 18 January 2007 at 1:55PM

Still loving this thread!!!

Gonna do my click thrus - done

Do my meal plan and shop (have been saying this all week but must get it done)

Need to go to docs to pick up sick note to ensure that I get paid at the end of the month! - done

:heartpuls CG :heartpuls

helping_hubby · 18 January 2007 at 2:00PM

I signed up to some juicethingy website for surveys for amazon vouchers. DOn't know how long it will take, but got £1.25.

I entered lots of competitions during lunch and applied for some of the freebies on the freebie board...useful things like shampoo.

pudding06 · 18 January 2007 at 2:07PM

I applied for some freebies,

I have put tonights dinner in sloe cooker for the first time.

I have resisted going out to lunch with OH who has the day off unexpectedly.

I have used up old stale bread for my breakfast this morning - stopped oH from throwing it out ( how dare he!!).

have some leftover soup/broth to have for lunch and will have that instead.

pudds

clarab_3 · 18 January 2007 at 2:14PM

i got a new penny jar - and a nsd. Im planning my spending for next week - I have to travel 50 miles to work every day

bobble_hat · 18 January 2007 at 2:21PM

I bought a value tin of sweetcorn for 17p, I intend to extricate the sweetcorn through a £2 coin sized hole and use the tin to save the lovely golden monetary nuggets. I will have to make a circular hole in the middle of the coin slot to enable the edible golden nuggets removal. :j

melou · 18 January 2007 at 2:26PM

I haven't had time to post on here this week but over the last few days I have:

- Kept up with pigsback CT's and quizzes everyday
- Brought lunch in every day (except yesterday as I was meant to be going out to lunch)
- Opened a savings account to put my additional earnings into so I can keep that income separate for the taxman
- downloaded EagerLearner's frills spending spreadsheet
- Checked my credit report with https://www.annualcreditreport.co.uk
- Applied for the Virgin 13 months of BT at 0% card for my one remaining debt (oh yay, oh yay!) but even if I don't get it I have already negotiated the rate of the current card down from 21.9% to 9.9%

As I won't be around tomorrow or over the weekend I would like to set my goals now, so:

Before next Tuesday I will:

- Take in the final ID document to Nationwide to open my flex account so that I can withdraw money free of charge when I am abroad (at least 8 days a month)
- Tackle the pile 'o' bills (all opened and read), sort them and put them into the nice filing cabinet my OH cleared out for me 4 months ago - bad me...
- Add up all the charges on my capital one card so that next week I can learn how to claim them back.
- Start loading ebay bits onto turbolister

I think that should be enough to keep me going!

Good luck everyone.

Melou

Avogirly · 18 January 2007 at 2:33PM

I haven't done anything money saving today I'm afraid. Except I drove my brothers car instead of mine, so that saved me some petrol!

Compared to how well everyone else has done I feel quite inadequate!

18.1.07 what small dfw/mse thing have you done/will you do today?

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